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It's also the time that I shed my illusions about party politics. Within two years' time, I watched the party alignment of the entire government invert itself, in what was widely termed a "revolution" by both sides. I expected great things from this transition... or at least some things. What I found, however, was that for the most part, it was business as usual in D.C.

Hillary is now so undeniably running for president that I think some people owe me an apology for all those years of calling me a paranoid conspiracy-monger. Hill has chalked up a fairly moderate record in the Senate over the past four years, but has recently moved even more aggressively toward the center. The latest example is her standing with the Senate God Squad (Santorum, Lieberman and Brownback) to whine about how children might be exposed to violence or boobies unless the...